Although many healthcare organizations have failed to recognize it, cloud backup could actually be the most effective format of data storage available to them.
With a number of proposed bills making their way through Congress, a federal data breach notification law seems inevitable, according to a report from online news provider Breaking Point.
The cloud has raised just as many questions as benefits it provides for adopters. Tops among companies' concerns is meeting regulatory compliance for data hosted by a managed service.
The good news is that many companies, according to a new report from CloudSource, recognize the importance of implementing data protection measures. However, they may do so for different reasons that one might expect.
In one of his final moves before stepping down as federal chief information officer, Vivek Kundra recently met with President Obama's top science advisers and briefed them on data security threats in the cloud.